Improved washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BRYAN S. HILL, OF WATTSBURG, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND STERLING DOOLITTLE, OF AMITY TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,200, dated July 7, 1863.

To all whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that l, B. S. HILL, of Wattsburg, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Washing-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a clear, full, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this speci lication, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section substantially through the line x x; Fig. 3, a view of the bottom of the wash-box, and Fig. 4 a view of the horizontal pounder from a point of view above the box.

A is the wash-box.

B B and B B are oblique or vertical pounders hinging at n and n. The weight of one of these balances that of the other and they will therefore be easily moved by the force applied.

C C, &c., is a frame supported by bearings in each side of the box at k 7c, supporting the pounders B and B and catching in the mortises l.

D is a lever fastened by bolts'or a band onto the central timber of this frame k lr, by which the machine is operated.

E E E and E', 85e., is aframe hinging atm and m on opposite sides of the box. j keeps this from dropping down. B and B rest against these two fra-mes. They are thrown up and B and B are dropped in toward C when the clothes are to be put into the box.

F is a horizontal pounder. Fig. 4 also represents this, as stated. This is constructed of two side pieces like F, placed at each side of the box, and connected by slats o o p q, &c. The slats p q, &c., are elevated one above another so that the water can pass through the spaces which are represented at r r, &c. This open work prevents the horizontal pounder from swashing the water from one end of the box to the other.

h h, Sac., are blunt points fastened onto the under sides of the lower slats and running into the spaces it', Snc., between the pieces G', &c. This pounder ioats in the water, and hence moves without other friction than that of the water.

G G', Smc., are inclined planes of rib-work, up which the clothes will be driven so as to be thrown back. Having these planes of ribwork, instead of solid, prevents the clothes from packing and allows the water to circulate freely underneath. The rib-work is also a better bottom for B and B to pound the clothes on.

Zlare mortises in which the frame C terminates.

B and B may be elevated and lowered so as to give greater or less range for the horizontal pounder, or more or less room for clothes of .different bulks.

The further operation is as follows: The lever D, having been lifted, has thrown the horizontal pounder back to the left of the wash-box, striking the clothes at S. The 1ever is then depressed, B/is brought down onto the clothes at S, and the pounder F strikes those at T.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the pounders F, B, and B and the inclined plane G, substantially as set fotth, for the purpose specified.

B. S. HILL.

Witnesses:

J. W. WETMORE, D. C. OsBoRNE. 

